2007 Ford f350? Known issues?

goducks10 wrote:
The reason Ford 6.0 diesels are so cheap is they have a bad rap. Why? Because they were trouble prone. Not all but more than normal. It's not like all are bad, but the % that is higher than a Cummins or Dmax. While Cummins was making one of the best diesels out there in the 5.9 ford was offering one of the worst. Like buying a fixer upper house. You know it's going to need work before you move in. The 6.0 is cheap because most know that you need to drop $4,000.00 to bullet proof one. Why not take the price of the truck, add $4,000.00 and get a good CTD or Dmax?
The 05 Ford 6.0 that I almost bought sat for close to a year on their lot before it was either traded to another dealer or bought. Ford really shot themselves in the foot with the 6.0

Exactly right. The fact is that a lot of owners can't accept this; I know because I owned one and I backed them too until I started to have issues that I knew were going to be expensive. Now that I'm out of it I feel like I have a huge weight lifted off of my chest and we feel fine about taking our 16k fifth wheel far from home.

Ford lost a lot of loyal customers due to their problem diesels after the 7.3L. My grandfather was the sales manager at a Ford dealership and our family bleeds blue. I did too, having owned 3 F-Series pickups over 20 years including a 7.3L and 6.0L diesel. I just couldn't do it again when I read about the HPFP failures on the 6.7L that Ford tends to refuse warranty coverage on. I plan on keeping my truck for a long time so reliability was paramount to me. I made a change and have no regrets.